Birding in Port Antonio

Whether you go out on your own or with a guide, you will see an impressive number of birds in and around Port Antonio. Hotel Mocking Bird provided us with this list of species that have been sighted on their property:

• ring-tailed pigeon (endangered)
• Jamaican parakeet
• chestnut-bellied cuckoo
• Jamaican owl
• Jamaican mango
• black-billed streamertail (endangered)
• Jamaican tody
• Jamaican woodpecker
• sad flycatcher
• rufous-tailed flycatcher
• Jamaican becard
• Jamaican crow
• white-chinned thrush
• Jamaican euphonia
• Jamaican stripe-headed tanager
• orangequit
• Jamaican oriole
• Jamaican elenia
• northern patoo
• bananaquit
• Caribbean dove
• common ground dove
• vervain hummingbird
• loggerhead kingbird
• greater Antillean bullfinch
• greater Antillean grackle
• northern mockingbird
• greenrumped parrotlet
• worm-eating warbler
• ruddy quail dove
• ovenbird, prairie warbler
• grey king bird
• Cape May warbler (migrant)
• white-crowned pigeon
• stolid flycatcher
• northern parula warbler
• black and white warbler (migrant)
• American redstart
• blackpoll warbler
• black-throated green warbler
• mourning warbler (migrant)
• turkey vulture
• black-throated blue warbler